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Screen Printing Explorations

Here is the latest piece of screen printed cloth I have made. I really like it. Love the soft coloring, the secondary imagery, the whole design.

I am confronting the limitations with the process this week.
If you look closely, you can see a slight discolored line running at a right angle on the upper left hand area of the piece. This is dye seepage. Last time I used this screen, I must have printed red and the dye stayed between the duct taped layers at the edges of the screen.
Are you following me? Does this make sense?
I have been brainstorming on how to fix this issue. And this is what I have come up with: House paint and caulk. I no longer want to wrap the frames of my screens in duct tape (this will eliminate the trap that occurs when the dye meets the duct tape area on the mesh). Instead I will stetch the mesh on the frame. Block out the printable area with painters tape. Caulk the inside edge of the frame where the wood meets the mesh and paint all available wood including the caulked area and a well on the screen.

Here is a detail: